Since Willy bestowed so much attention upon Biff, Happy had to be play the "lighter sidekick" to such an enmeshed pairp. Happy, on the other hand, has never had to grow up because he grow up as a mere shadow of Biff. Biff is the only one who has accepted the facts of the Loman family's dysfunctional nature. For this reason, the restaurant scene becomes the epicentre of the battle between Willy and Biff: just when Willy is about to instigate Biff to lie about how well Biff's life is going, Biff retorts back with many efforts to "wake" Willy out of his fantasies. In the process, he realizes that his own life has been nothing but a lie a product of Willy's own imagination.īecause of this, Biff feels that he has the right to confront Willy with what he has come to know as "the truth" of their lives. As a result, Biff goes through a process where he has to de-program the constructs that he had built about Willy. At age 17 Biff makes the discovery that his father was having an affair with a woman, deflating completely the former image of Willy that Biff had created. A product of Willy's own ideas of popularity, Biff was molded to act, think, and make choices the way that Willy would have wanted him to. Growing up, Willy Loman demonstrated a marked favoritism for his eldest son, Biff. The difference in the way that Biff and Happy Loman treat their father, Willy Loman, in the play Death of a Salesman lies on the manner in which Willy treated each of his children as differently as he did, and on the way that each of the young men developed psychologically as a result of it.
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